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February Monthly meeting – Training on Digital Mobile Radio ( DMR) – 101

SRARC will hold there monthly meeting on Thursday, February 6th, at 7 pm. at the Rutherford County Emergency Mgmt Bldg located at 1220 College St in Murfreesboro, TN.

Social Hour will be at the Sylvan Park Restaurant located on Broad St. Several members usually gather here at 5:15 to 5:30 to have some dinner prior to the meeting.

February educational training will be an overview of the capability of DMR radio system, types of radios to use, requirements and where to access resources.

This training is being presented by Mark McDougal (W4DMM) a member of the SRARC.

Marvin Turner – W0MET
President

As many of you have heard we have the chance of severe weather moving into our area tomorrow.
We would like to remind everyone to stay weather aware over the next 24 hours.
If you have any storm related information to pass along stations are encouraged to participate in your local SKYWARN – ARES nets first if those are not available then contact an MTEARS Net Control operator to relay your message.  MTEARS will start monitoring in the morning until the storms have cleared our area.
( http://mtears.org/ )
The type of information that generally meets the NWS reporting criteria are reports of tornadoes, funnel clouds, winds over 50mph, hail a half inch or larger, heavy rains causing flooding, storm damage reports such as trees or powerlines down, washed out or blocked roads and damage to buildings.
The more information you can give the better. Please remember to take note of the time, street names and cross streets, your county, the direction the storm is traveling and if your mobile be sure to get a mile marker so we can mark your location.
This information helps MTEARS & the NWS know the exact location.
As always if it’s a true emergency please call 911.
As with any repeater and on MTEARS be sure to key the mike for a second or two before speaking. This gives all the linked repeaters time to connect

Below is the latest information from the Nashville NWS Facebook Page about the storms.. https://www.facebook.com/NWSNashville

“Strong to severe storms are possible on Saturday with damaging straight line winds and 1″ to 2″ of rain the primary threats. In addition, a couple of tornadoes are possible mainly south of I-40. Winds will be gusty with a Wind Advisory in effect from midnight tonight until 6 p.m. Saturday. Wind gusts up to 50 mph are possible, even outside of thunderstorms.”

My name is Marvin Turner, W0MET and I am the club president for Stones Amateur Radio Club for 2020.  If you have not been active and you are still interested in joining the Amateur Radio Club, I encourage you to come to our next meeting which will be February 6th, 2020.  We meet on the 1^st Thursday of every month. Our meetings are held at the Rutherford County Emergency Management Agency building located at 1220 College St. in Murfreesboro. This is the first email being sent out by me as your new president.  All emails should come from srarctn@gmail.com

I am writing this email because we have a lot of activities planned for 2020 and would love to have you involved. I have attached a copy of our yearly calendar, but here is the shortlist.

– Fox Hunts

– Field Day

– SRARC  Picnic

– Tennessee QSO Party

– Christmas Parade

…and more

In addition to planning for these events, we have secured the website SRARCTN.org. In 2020, we are making some positive changes that are just being released here for the first time such as the website which is now live.

This new website contains a lot of information that is useful for new hams to help them such as frequency page, Ham 101 video, our monthly training schedule, news feeds, mesh network and we have a google calendar that has meetings, hamfest, training, and many other calendar events on it. This is not an exhausted list of items you can find, but I encourage you to go out to the webpage with the link above and check it out for yourself.
The website will be a continuous project that will have new updates and changes throughout the year.

I want to give Glenn Clute (Vice President) W1KOM a huge applaud for all of his time, effort to help get this site up and running over the last week. While it has been both of us working on it. Glenn did all the groundwork and was willing to host the site which makes the cost to the club – zero dollars.

Each month we have a topic of discussion where we have fellow hams with knowledge and experience give a presentation on topics such as Digital Mobile Radio (DMR), APRS, First Aid, Station Grounding and more as just some of our 2020 topics. This will give us opportunities to learn more about a wide range of topics that mesh together with amateur radio.

The great thing about Amateur Radio is not only the fact that it’s the last line of communication in the event of a disaster but it’s also multifaceted. You can get really involved or you can just participate in the activities that interest you. You can learn a little about everything or you can concentrate on that one thing you really enjoy.  When you get good at it, you teach others!!

The best way to learn and keep up to date with what’s going on is by attending our meetings. You don’t even have to be a member. You can sit in as a guest and never sign up for the Radio Club. If you want to be a member, you get voting privileges and dues are $20.00 for the year as an individual and $30 for families.

Again, if you are receiving this email and you’re not active, I encourage you to come to our next meeting and check us out. We are looking forward to making a lot of radio contacts in 2020, but we are also looking forward to supporting the SRARC and our community and we are looking forward to growing our membership and getting more amateurs involved with Amateur Radio.

If you have any question don’t hesitate to reach out to me.

Marvin Turner

W0MET

Stones River Amateur Radio Club President